Bernardo Bertolucci

Director

Born - 16 March 1941, Parma, Italy
Died - 26 November 2018

Heftily built, good-looking Italian director, of often controversial subjects. He only directed 17 films, many of them critical successes, in a long career, but began young: The Grim Reaper (1962), Before the Revolution (1964), Partner (1968), The Spider's Stratagem (1970), The Conformist (1970), Last Tango in Paris (1972), 1900 (1976), La Luna (1979), Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981), The Last Emperor (1987), The Sheltering Sky (1990), Little Buddha (1993), Stealing Beauty (1993), Besieged (1998), The Dreamers (2003) and Me and You (2012), his last. He married Italian actress Adriana Asti, and, latterly, English writer-director Clare Peploe, both of whom survive him. Winner of two Oscars for The Last Emperor, he died from cancer.